Higher English: Drama: How to Know Good Drama, and to Say why it is Good

Abbey Theatre action actors æsthetic Antony audience Ben Jonson Brutus Cassio CHAPTER character characteristics classical Cleopatra comedy comic conflict Coriolanus death Desdemona dialogue doom doth dramatic irony dramatis personæ dramatist Edipus Elizabethan English example Exercises eyes Falstaff father following passage fool Galsworthy give Greek Hamlet hath heart heaven Henry honour humour Iago irony of situation Julius Cæsar katharsis killed King John King Lear Lady Macbeth Laius Lear light literature look lord Malvolio means Merchant of Venice mind modern play murder never Ophelia Othello person pity playwright plot poetic poetry Polonius prose Puritan regard Richard Richard III Roman Scene Shakespeare Shakespeare's plays Shakespearean tragedy Shylock soul speak spirit spoken stage story suspense T. C. Murray's tell theatre thee thing thou tragic hero true Twelfth Night verbal irony W. B. Yeats word Write an appreciation